Hyper Iria was a game released in 1995 for the Super Famicom, known in the United States as the Super Nintendo. Though exclusively released in Japan, a fan translation was released in 2016 (the version of this linked YouTube video).
The game is based off the six-episode OVA series release in 1994 called Iria: Zeiram the Animation. Though it contains the bounty Hunter Iria, her A.I. assistant Bob, and the presence of the monster Zeiram, the game does not follow the anime storyline.
Instead, the game deals with Iria as a bounty Hunter taking on five bounty missions with the help of her AI assistant. These missions seem to pertain to either biological experiments that got out of control, rampant robots, or a combination of both. Each mission ends with a boss fight that seems to be a variation of Zeiram until the fifth mission when Iria takes on Zeiram directly.
I get the impression Iria exists in a universe where space faring corporations are willing to manipulate biology towards any ends, even if it puts at risk the facilities that engineer these biological life. Wherein the anime Zeiram is an unstoppable alien life form some corporation is trying to harness as a weapon, in this game it seems they have had some success in this endeavor. Does that mean there is more than one Zeiram?
Hyper Iria was a game released in 1995 for the Super Famicom, known in the United States as the Super Nintendo. Though exclusively released in Japan, a fan translation was released in 2016 (the version of this linked YouTube video).
The game is based off the six-episode OVA series release in 1994 called Iria: Zeiram the Animation. Though it contains the bounty Hunter Iria, her A.I. assistant Bob, and the presence of the monster Zeiram, the game does not follow the anime storyline.
Instead, the game deals with Iria as a bounty Hunter taking on five bounty missions with the help of her AI assistant. These missions seem to pertain to either biological experiments that got out of control, rampant robots, or a combination of both. Each mission ends with a boss fight that seems to be a variation of Zeiram until the fifth mission when Iria takes on Zeiram directly.
I get the impression Iria exists in a universe where space faring corporations are willing to manipulate biology towards any ends, even if it puts at risk the facilities that engineer these biological life. Wherein the anime Zeiram is an unstoppable alien life form some corporation is trying to harness as a weapon, in this game it seems they have had some success in this endeavor. Does that mean there is more than one Zeiram?